THERE'S A CRAZY MAN PREACHING!

This is a message by Jeb Jennings that he gave to me and has given me permission to post. For more messages go to:   Destiny Home Daily.blogspot.com

In waiting upon God, we often learn that He is the one waiting___on us. When it comes to gardening, we know that God supplies the seed and the season, but waits on you to sow the seed. In a natural and spiritual garden, nothing will be accomphished if you do not move in faith and obedience.

Luke 1:17 declares of John the Baptist: "And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord." This was literally fulfilled when John preached in the wilderness and pointed the people to Jesus, who came to be baptized in water.

Consider the background of Jesus and John the baptist. Both of their births had been supernaturally announced by an angel of the Lord and were confirmed by the prophet Isaiah. In addition to this, don't you know that once they were old enough to understand, their mothers rehearsed to them the events of their births?

As John was waiting upon God, he found his ministry outlined in Isaiah 40:3: "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God....And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." This is why he could declare with such assurance that Jesus was going to be revealed: "And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel" (John 1:31). John knew that the preaching of, "One mightier than I cometh," would be confirmed by the Lord coming to be revealed to fulfill what was written.

It is absolutely certain that Jesus, as the Son of Man, did nothing without first waiting on the word from his Father. This being true, Jesus was waiting on John's ministry of preparation to begin in the desert. Until John got the word from heaven to proceed, Jesus couldn't proceed! It's an amazing thought: Jesus, who was God in the flesh, was working in a carpenters shop, waiting on a man to begin his ministry. As soon as he got word that, "There's a crazy man preaching in the Jordan", he began his ministry, fulfilling everything John declared.

The church collectively is one man___one body made up of many members. As the scripture's teach, we will end in unity that it might be fulfilled that which is written in the gospel of John 17:21, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me."  God is waitng on us to stand in the wilderness of our day and declare with one voice, "Jesus is coming to rule and reign on the earth as the supreme King of the universe." As surly as we declare it, he will fulfill it: "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." (Thessalonians 4:16-17).     He is waiting on you!